Azure SQL Server Performance Check Automation

On Operational projects that involves heavy data processing on a daily basis, there’s a need to monitor the DB performance. Over a period of time, the workload grows causing potential issues. While there are best practices to handle the processing by adopting DBA strategies (indexing, partitioning, collecting STATS, reorganizing tables/indexes, purging data, allocating bandwidth separately for ETL/DWH users, Peak time optimization, effective DEV query Re-writes etc.,), it is necessary to be aware of the DB performance and consistently monitor for further actions. 

If Admin access is not available to validate the performance on Azure, building Automations can help monitor the space and necessary steps before the DB causes Performance issues/failures. 

Regarding the DB performance monitoring, IICS Informatica Job can be created with a Data Task to execute DB (SQL Server) Metadata tables query to check for the performance and Emails can be triggered once Free space goes below the threshold percentage (ex., 20 %). 

IICS Mapping Design below (scheduled Hourly once). Email alerts would contain the Metric percent values. 

                       

Note : Email alerts will be triggered only if the Threshold limit exceeds. 

                                             

IICS ETL Design : 

                                                     

                     

IICS ETL Code Details : 

 

Data Task is used to get the Used space of the SQL Server performance (CPU, IO percent).

                                         

Query to check if Used space exceeds 80% . I Used space exceeds the Threshold limit (User can set this to a specific value like 80%), and send an Email alert. 

                                                            

                                         

If Azure_SQL_Server_Performance_Info.dat has data (data populated when CPU/IO processing exceeds 80%) the Decision task is activated and Email alert is triggered. 

                                                                                    

Email Alert :  

                                           

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